"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”⎯Albus Dumbledore

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.” ⎯Jim Rohn

"To love thyself is to know thyself, for self-awareness unwittingly breeds acceptance." Travis Bradberry

 “The trick is in what one emphasizes. We make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”⎯C. Castaneda

random thoughts...

All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do.  ~Author Unknown

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.  ~Thomas Jefferson

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.  ~Author Unknown

 The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.  ~Attributed to both Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.  ~Benjamin Franklin

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.  ~José Ortega y Gassett